By Steve Webster ~ Great Bend Post

A western Kansas woman is going to prison for the abuse death of her 3-month-old son.

28-year-old Marilyn Fay Hoffman of Scott City was sentenced Friday to nearly 15 years for second-degree intentional murder and one count of child abuse. Hoffman has been jailed since her arrest in July 2010 after the infant, Xavier Hoffman, died at a Wichita hospital where he was being treated for extensive injuries.

Hoffman was initially charged with first-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge last July in Scott County District Court.